Jean Le Poulain
Jean Le Poulain (12 September 1924 – 1 March 1988) was a French stage actor and stage director. He attended the cours Simon in Paris and won the first prize of Comedy at the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique in 1949. He was then recruited by Jean Vilar at the Théâtre national populaire and in 1952 he appeared with Gérard Philipe in The Prince of Homburg by Heinrich von Kleist at the théâtre des Champs-Élysées. He began as an actor both in theatre and cinema in 1947 and often appeared on the regular theatre show of the French television Au théâtre ce soir created in 1966. He joined the Comédie-Française in 1978, where he became sociétaire in 1980, then General administrator from septembre 1986 until his death, where he portrayed Monsieur Jourdain in Le Bourgeois gentilhomme by Molière. Source: Article "Jean Le Poulain" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Volpone
(Volpone)
Arsène Lupin vs. Arsène Lupin
(le préfet de police)
The Red Ibis
(Margos)
Divine
(Bobovitch)
Les Aventures des Pieds-Nickelés
The Mysteries of Paris
(The schoolmaster)
Les Gorilles
(The stage director)
Le noir te va si bien
(John)
Signé Furax
(Klakmuf)
She Does Not Drink, Smoke or Flirt But... She Talks
(Gruson)
Fric-Frac
(Jo)
The Hunchback of Paris
(Peyrolles)
Le Voyage de monsieur Perrichon
(M. Mathieu, ex-Commandant au Deuxième Zouave)
The Empire of Night
(David Balkis, Emperor of the night)
Les Livreurs
(Professor Alexis Schmutz)
The Deadly Decoy
Le roi du village
The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot
(Brother Albaret)
Sahara on Fire
Sortie de secours
(Harpagon)
A Strange Kind of Colonel
La Dame de chez Maxim
(le Général Petypon du Grêlé)
Salut Berthe !
(Step Dad)
De doux dingues
(Paul Lecuyer)
Le Voyage de monsieur Perrichon
(Monsieur Perrichon)
Le Faiseur
(M. Mercadet)
La Nuit des rois
(Malvolio)
La Puce à l'oreille
(Victor-Emmanuel Chandebise et Poche)
Azaïs
(Le baron Wurtz)
Les deux timides
(Thibaudier)
Interdit au public
(Hervé Montagne)
Le minotaure
(Michou)
Seventeenth Heaven
(L'homme à la voiture)
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme
(Monsieur Jourdain)
Miam-miam ou le Dîner d'affaires
(Lucien Beix)
Sign of the Lion
(Le Clochard)
Et qu'ça saute !
(Don Pedro)
Un coup dans l'aile
(Levaillant)
Le Malade imaginaire
(Argan)
At Theatre Tonight
(Hervé Montagne)
At Theatre Tonight
(Le baron Wurtz)
À bout portant
(Self)
Midi Première
(Self)
Le Grand Échiquier
(Self)
Samedi soir
(Self)
Système 2
(Self)
Champs-Elysées
(Self)
30 millions d'amis
(Self)
Move Over, Mrs. Markham
(Director)
Fric-Frac
(Stage Director)
Huit femmes
(Stage Director)
Les deux timides
(Stage Director)
Pétrus
(Stage Director)
La Nuit des rois
(Stage Director)
Le noir te va si bien
(Director)
Le Voyage de monsieur Perrichon
(Director)
Interdit au public
(Director)
Azaïs
(Stage Director)
Le Malade imaginaire
(Director)
At Theatre Tonight
(Stage Director)